Re: Cookies

Robert Morris (winboog@gis.net)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:52:44 -0400

Tossing your cookies is vomiting, to the best of my knowledge. Glad I could
be of service.                   
  
                  Robert Morris
                   winboog@gis.net

now playing-electric fan

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> From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Cookies
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:19 PM
> 
> This is a kind of stupid `I-have-a-bet-with-this-friend-of-mine' (my
> boyfriend actually) question. I mentioned that the cab we got in the
other
> day smelt like someone had tossed his cookies in it - yes, an unashamed
> steal from TCIR - but he looked at me kind of strangely. I always thought
> that tossing one's cookies referred to throwing up (and was a really nice
> epithet for it), whereas he maintains that it's something quite different
> ... how shall I put this - involving quite another bodily compulsion. Can
> anyone help me out here? Who's right? (we Australians have similar
> confusions on the exact nature of these cooties we're always hearing
about)
> 
> Camille 
> verona_beach@geocities.com
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